Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Florida. The Kissimmee is a strand in the northern section of the extensive tangle of the region's streams and rivers. Some of the waters, including the Kissimmee, feed into the gigantic water system that supplies drinking water for the 4 million inhabitants of southern Florida. Others snake off to submerge the Everglades and nurture its water-loving fowl and alligators. When the 200-ft.-wide, 30-ft.-deep channel was completed and the Kissimmee's annual overflow was eliminated, two-thirds of its adjacent marshland, or 20,000 acres, shriveled up, taking with it the plants...
...nightmare of 1968 as whim and reverie possess this gangster on the lam. Leone is less interested in arousing an audience's easier emotions than in presenting, at a dispassionate distance, the horror of two men warily walking toward each other on a tightrope suspended above the snake pit of their , deepest compulsions...
...Evening Transcript and the Boston AD-VA-TISA, like an incantation. On the first warm days of spring there would be the usual "spring riots" on the part of high-spirited undergraduates, who threw rolls of toilet paper out the windows of their ancient dormitories in the Yard, or snake-danced through the Square--mild stuff by modern standards but considered pretty far out for the times. The Cambridge Police looked on with a certain amount of benevolence and left the nabbing to the college "cops." And late in the spring, during the "reading period," the Harvard Glee Club used...
With his announcement last month, Maazel, 54, became the latest in a long line of conductorial fugitives from Vienna's legendary operatic snake pit. Among the others: Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Herbert von Karajan, all of whom found the Viennese insatiable thirst for intrigue intolerable. But Maazel's departure also marks a new round in a process that seems to have become habitual among international maestros today: they trade top jobs and collect new ones like baseball cards...
...spokesman for the film makers' corporation, Luke Spielberger Ltd., said that the attractions will include a Poltergeist funhouse, a scuba dive through shark-infested waters, an American Graffiti drag strip, a Millennium Falcon journey through the Twilight Zone, an E. T. flying-bike ride and an Indiana Jones snake pit. The restaurants, or cantinas, will feature gremlins serving popcorn and candy bars. Each afternoon the Ewoks Marching Band will parade through the park playing the works of John Williams...